LING 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: English Plurals, Obstruent, Linnean Society Of London
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Phonology is a linguistic module nestled between morphology and phonetics. Thinking generatively, the output of morphology is the input to phonology. The output of phonology is the input to phonetics. A phonological analysis holds that systematic variation in the pronunciation of morphemes is attributed to phonological processes and not to variation in the lexical representation of these morphemes. If possible, there is only one lexical representation for each morpheme. The principle is that only idiosyncratic information is stored in the lexicon. Let"s do some exercises in finnish, kerewe and english. As we do this, we will see that given any systematic variation in the pronunciation of morphemes, there are potentially (at least) two different phonological analyses. We will see that selection of one of them boils down to the following principles: If we say that a comes after b, is it the case that a always come after. We want the process to be as efficient as possible.
